I am, with a heavy heart, planning to cancel my WaPo subscription. I don't want a NYT subscription rn. I already subscribe to lots of alternative, ideological, and specialized media. What do I do to get my big mainstream newspaper fix?
For a president who ran for office promising to keep the United States out of wars, Trump has already launched attacks during his second term in:
Ecuador
Iran
Iraq
Nigeria
Somalia
Syria
Venezuela
Yemen
and on civilians in boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.
Blumenthal: "I have emerged from classified briefings deeply concerned and very fearful that we're on the precipice not only of an escalating conflict that in region, but also putting troops on the ground b/c that is almost inevitably the path the admin has chosen by its current tactical approach"
"Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made multiple private calls to Trump over the past month advocating a US attack [on Iran], despite his public support for a diplomatic solution..[he + brother Khalid bin Salman] warned about downsides of not attacking"
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
congress sounds cool i wish it was real
Exclusive: Prior to Iran attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei would be replaced by hardline IRGC elements if killed, sources say reut.rs/4l9SCAs
Mississippi prison officials told Mary Anderson her uncle died of a heart attack while incarcerated. A year later, the FBI is investigating his death as a homicide. He was reportedly beaten to death by prison guards. My latest for @themarshallproject.org
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/02/24/m...
Fantastic reporting from @chrisgelardi.bsky.social who easily found a former New York prison chef accused of sexual assault, after the state insisted in legal filings that he did not exist.
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Sent a Rescue Plane for Boat Strike Survivors. It Took 45 Hours to Arrive.
In seas that could kill a person within an hour, it took nearly two days for a rescue plane to arrive.
New from @airwars.bsky.social and @theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2026/02/17/b...
The U.S. conducted more extrajudicial killings in the Eastern Pacific today
We’re tracking the civilian toll @theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
Do you work at an OCFS secure or limited secure facility? Do you have a loved one incarcerated in one of the facilties? Were you incarcerated yourself?
New York Focus wants to hear from you. Email reporter Chris Gelardi at chris@nysfocus.com or message him on Signal at @cgelardi.42.
and gaza
New York's youth prisons are a disaster. Kids locked in solitary for days at a time. Staff forced to work 24-plus-hour shifts. Crisis after crisis.
"I'm a human rights violator," one whistleblower told me.
They recounted the nightmare at one facility:
nysfocus.com/2026/02/04/o...
Hochul hopped on the anti-ICE train with some new, two-pronged legislation.
One proposal, to ban jail contracts, would be big.
The other... maybe not so much.
I've said it before: 287(g) is the red herring of local ICE collaboration.
From @liv-veazey.bsky.social and @sammellins.bsky.social:
Hochul hopped on the anti-ICE train with some new, two-pronged legislation.
One proposal, to ban jail contracts, would be big.
The other... maybe not so much.
I've said it before: 287(g) is the red herring of local ICE collaboration.
From @liv-veazey.bsky.social and @sammellins.bsky.social:
BREAKING: We spoke to a witness of the fatal shooting in Minneapolis, who confirmed that the victim was an ICE-watch observer and not a target of immigration enforcement.
W/ @jsweetli.bsky.social via @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/01/24/m...
Never have I so badly wanted to throw my phone into the ocean.
www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
*New in @nysfocus.bsky.social: Juvenile detention centers in New York are keeping youth in small cells without sinks or toilets, often for upwards of 23 hours a day, for days or weeks at a time, a lawsuit alleges.
nysfocus.com/2026/01/09/o...
The US press learned nothing from Bush and has learned nothing from Trump
Trump claimed early Saturday that the U.S. had carried out airstrikes on Caracas and spirited Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro out of the country and taken him into custody, marking a dramatic escalation in his administration's regime change efforts. interc.pt/4aCyy6t
The state, represented by the office of Attorney General Letitia James, plans to ask judges to dismiss up to 500 prison sexual assault cases filed against it under the Adult Survivors Act, Hell Gate and New York Focus have learned.
"Sometimes stories make you think: wow, this belongs on screen."
Thank you Popshift for featuring two New York Focus stories in The IP List Index 2025.
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Trump to Venezuela: Give us back our land.
Extremely well put, @rebeccaclewis.bsky.social. It's been a hell of a year for the New York state prison system.
Read @cityandstateny.bsky.social's winners and big big losers of 2025⬇️
And read @nysfocus.bsky.social's "massive investigation" into the state prison system's ruling family ⬇️⬇️
Rubio has repeatedly insisted the govt is restarting life-saving foreign aid.
My colleagues found that’s bullshit.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social
It can feel like ICE agents are everywhere. That, presumably, is how they want it to feel. At the same time, more and more people who have never engaged in anything like these actions before are purposefully running toward the trouble. trib.al/zNVrQNn
